Diana M. Garno. Citoyennes and Icaria. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2005. ix + 280 pp. $39.00
Etienne Cabet, the nineteenth-century French theorist who, with many of his followers, established communal societies in the United States, has often been portrayed as an idealist whose lofty goals proved unachievable. A theme of Diana M. Garno's Citoyennes andlcaria is how the gap between word and deed was especially represented in the lives of Icarian "citoyennes"--the women who were ...